The core 4E books are out, and reactions are starting to spread across the blogosphere. Here are a few of the most interesting articles on 4E That I’ve found this week:
Martin over at Gnome Stew does it again by recounting his first impressions of 4E. Some of the phrases that jump out at me: “Mercifully brief setup” and “Solid simplifications.” You may not may not like the idea of simplification or the rules convergence that leads to simplification, but you can’t deny it’s present in 4E.
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I missed Game Day due to the fact that we live waaay out in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, Chatty’s got a Game Day recap, along with his thoughts about 4E.
The boys over at Critical Hits have a couple of 4E Roundtable discussions worth taking a look at. Among the interesting concepts? Half-elves apparently blow.
Greywulf, who inspired my post on balance the other day, has a compelling final analysis of Core 4E. His take? 4E is a mixed bag, but an improvement.
I even have a couple of non-4E articles for you to check out too.
Ben Overmyer of Silver Gryphon Games has a guest post at Capturing Fantasy on the Four Types of RPG Players. These are the four player archetypes we’ve talked about for years, but Ben’s put them in an interesting context here. There’s also still time to get into the CF launch contest if you haven’t already done so.
Speaking of contests, Yax is giving more stuff away. This time, he’s offering up 3 Forgotten Realms books. Get over there and enter today!
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OK, I know I’ve overloaded you with posts today, but I wanted to offer one more thought. Several of us in the gaming blog world use Twitter on a regular basis, and it has proven to be a much more usable tool for me in finding good RPG links than my feed reader. Here are some of the folks I recommend following:
@WritingJourney (That’s me)
@GreyWulf (Um, that’s Greywulf, of course)
@ChattyDM (You know Chatty)
@MenwithPens (from Capturing Fantasy)
@VegasPenMan (Harry from Capturing Fantasy)
If you’re on twitter, feel free to post your ID in the comments to this post.
Tomorrow: Some talk about the new name, and discussion of who almost won. Don’t miss it!
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I still haven’t really gotten the hang of Twitter yet, but it’s on my ToDo list.
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